Turkey says France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria. This is stated by Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu after France announced it would maintain a presence despite United States pull-out announcement. He said Ankara viewed the US-backed the ...

Turkish forces bombarded Kurdish militia positions  in northern Syria. According to the state-owned Anadolu news agency, the bombardment targeted the Zor Magar area to the west of northern Syria’s Ayn al-Arab region and was aimed at preventing terrorist activities.

Istanbul:President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday vowed to expand Turkey's offensive in Syria against Kurdish militia to key border towns controlled by the group right up to the Iraqi frontier. Turkey launched its operation seeking to oust Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia from the ...

Turkish warplanes have bombarded Kurdish militia targets in Syria’s Afrin region. A monitor said the strikes killed seven fighters and two civilians. (Reuters)

Turkey says it is ready to take any steps necessary against a Syrian Kurdish militia to ensure security of its borders. This was stated in a statement after a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Meanwhile, Turkey's top security body has recommended ...

ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey’s military incursion in northern Syria’s Idlib province would crush Kurdish militia forces that control the neighboring region of Afrin. The Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish forces inside Syria fired shells into Afrin on ...

ISTANBUL: The Turkish army and Kurdish militia exchanged fire Monday in the northern Syrian province of Idlib where Ankara's troops are stationed as observers, the first report of such an incident in the area, state media said.Kurdish militia fighters fired five mortars at an observation post in ...

ISTANBUL: -Turkey on Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" a US announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria."The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A ...

ISTANBUL (APP) - Turkey on Monday said it would press on with targeting a Syrian Kurdish militia in Syria if it failed to fulfil promises to retreat east of the Euphrates River, accusing the group of ethnic cleansing."The YPG (People's Protection Units) first of all... need to cross east of the ...

BEIRUT: (APP) Syria's brutal conflict has now claimed the lives of more than 290,000 people, a monitoring group said on Monday, giving its latest death toll for the devastating five-year war.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 292,817 people had been killed between March 2011 -- when the ...